The right to life
By: Christian Tomuschat, Evelyne Lagrange and Stefan Oeter, editors.
Contributors: Tomuschat, Christian.; Lagrange, Evelyne.; Oeter, Stefan.
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9789004183919
Subjects: Right to life -- Congresses; Humanitarian law -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: "Papers from the conference held in Hamburg in October 2008 by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur̈ Volkerrecht (German Society of International Law) and the French Societ́e ́franca̧ise pour le droit international"--P. viii.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The right to life : legal and political foundations / Christian Tomuschat; title: 'Death is different' : the death penalty and the right to a fair trial / Walter Kalin; title: Le recours a la force par la police / Paul Tavernier; title: The duty to investigate the death of persons arrested and/or detained by public authorities / Vera Rusinova; title: The bundesverfassungsgericht on the German aerial security law : a sonderweg from the perspective of international law? / Georg Nolte; title: Le crime de genocide dans la jurisprudence internationale : debats et hypotheses / Rafaelle Maison; title: The right to life and the relationship between human rights and humanitarian law / Vera Gowlland-Debbas; title: The ICRC's clarification process on the notion of direct participation in hostilities under international humanitarian law / Nils Melze; title: Collateral damages : military necessity and the right to life / Stefan Oeter; title: The status of captured fighters in non-international armed conflict / Michael Bothe; title: Les " combattants irreguliers " en situation d'occupation militaire / Philippe Weckel; title: Targeted killings - a challenge for international law? / Stefanie Schmahl; title: Assassinats cibles et droit a la vie dans la jurisprudence de la Cour supreme israelienne / Helene Tigroudja; title: Le tyrannicide en droit international / Jean d'Aspremont; title: Le droit a la vie et le droit a une alimentation; title: Suffisante / Emmanuel Decaux; title: The right to life and the right to health, in particular the obligation to reduce child mortality / Eibe Riedel; title: 'Refugies ecologiques' et droit international / Astrid Epiney.